Child watches as people are tied up, assaulted during Philadelphia home invasion
Surveillance video shows a terrifying Philadelphia home invasion that goes down as a small child watches nearby.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Disturbing surveillance video shows a child standing nearby as people are tied up and assaulted during a Philadelphia home invasion.
It happened around 10:12 a.m. on Nov. 6 in the 6600 block of N. 7th Street in the East Oak Lane section of the city.
"My wife, she cries every night. She can't sleep," said a man who survived the terrifying robbery. "She can't sleep."
The victim told police he runs a business out of his home.
Video from the front yard shows a black Acura come into view with armed men crouching behind.
In another angle, you see the four men force the owner and his cousin into the house at gunpoint.
Then, they tie the men up and pistol-whip them, all while a 4-year-old girl watches.
"She's scared, she cries," he said.
The victim we spoke to said the girl begged them to stop hurting her dad and they threatened to kill her.
"She makes a lot of noise, and they talk to her, 'Shut up or I kill you too,'" he said.
"When they talked to my daughter like that, oh my God, I wanted to die too," he continued.
She ran and hid behind the sofa.
The group ransacked the home and are seen on video wheeling out a safe. They also took cash, firearms and jewelry.
The victim runs a delivery business out of his home and thinks the men knew.
"They know we have a business because they asked, 'Where's the money, where's the money?' I said, 'I don't have money.' They said 'Yeah, you have money here,'" he said.
Video from a neighbor captured the masked men in a 2007 to 2008 black Acura, fleeing westbound on 66th Avenue.
No serious injuries were reported.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Philadelphia police at 215-686-TIPS (8477).
